“I was born and brought up here, and worked in the workshop right there where my father and grandfather worked,” said Ranzan Ali, 56, a Varanasi master silk weaver as he sat cross-legged in an ...

Varanasi: After ensuring trademark registration as 'Silk Banarasi' for international branding of Banarasi saris, the Uttar ...

Varanasi is home to high-quality silk. While Varanasi is the Hindu Holy ... What else can a skilled and cultured weaver like this do?" With fervor he pointed to such a man. I disliked the language ...

In this photograph taken on April 22, 2014 Indian weaver Sardar Haji Hafizullah ... was laid to rest veiled in a brocade of silk hand-woven in India's Varanasi, according to local legend.

ruin the world famous silk industry and handloom weavers of Varanasi, known for weaving "colourful dreams" on looms? Facts and common perception support the contention. The increased duty on raw ...

“After Covid, growth in tourism revived silk products ... generation of the President awardee master weaver family in Peeli Kothi area of Varanasi. “Also inflated electricity bills of the ...

The small weaver hasn’t benefited either, as the lowered import duty hasn’t done anything to cool raw silk prices. More than 80% of the silk sold to weavers in Varanasi comes from China ...

a Varanasi native. Even the livelihoods of Hindus and Muslims are intertwined. In the handlooms of the famous Banaras silk sarees, weavers are mostly Muslim whereas clients and wholesalers are ...